CONTACT INFORMATION

UtiliPoint International
www.utilipoint.com

Ethan Cohen
ecohen@utilipoint.com

ALBUQUERQUE, NM; November 4, 2003 - UtiliPoint International, a global utility consulting company with expertise in utility and energy information technology, is pleased to announce that Ethan L. Cohen has joined the company to lead the firm’s Utility and Energy Technology Practice. “Ethan brings to UtiliPoint a wealth of industry experience, insight, and innovation that builds on UtiliPoint’s unmatched market research insight and unparalleled capability to help the industry understand where it is today and where it needs to go tomorrow,” says UtiliPoint International's CEO, Bob Bellemare.

Based in Boston, Massachusetts, UtiliPoint’s Utility and Energy Technology Practice will provide utility and energy industry research and insight, strategic advice, market consulting, and management consulting to technology suppliers and electric, gas, and water utilities. “However, this isn’t the typical analyst practice,” cautions Cohen, an analyst and consulting industry veteran. “Given that our focus is utility information technology and energy technology, we will be able to provide the market and our clients with the kind of dedicated ‘market thought-leader’ insight and advice they need and deserve,” says Cohen.

The “market thought-leader” concept of advice that drives the practice is emblematic of UtiliPoint’s mission—that is to provide timely, immediately actionable, and value yielding information and advice to clients and the marketplace. However, the difference between UtiliPoint’s Utility and Energy Technology practice and other analysis and consulting practices does not end there. According to Greg Galluzzi, UtiliPoint Director and President of TMG Consulting, “Most analysis and advisory firms have ventured too far astray in their research, creating highly abstract paradigms that do not reflect industry, business, economic, or technological realities. Players in the utility and energy marketplace need genuine insight, not hyperbole. They need facts, they need solid actionable advice, and they need it now; in order to survive in an increasingly challenging and uncertain environment.”

UtiliPoint International’s COO Jon Brock confirmed, “At UtiliPoint, we are serving an ever increasing number of utility companies and technology providers who need much more from the analyst community than broad-based publications, general dated information, and one-size-fits-all consulting.” Brock added, “This new practice is a result of requests from our clients. Our commitment to them and the industry is to provide the research and advisory services they really want and need. They have asked and we are responding.”

To learn more about the Utility and Energy Technology Practice at UtiliPoint International, please contact Ethan Cohen either online, by phone or e-mail. www.utilipoint.com/specialpages/Utility_Energy_Technology.asp

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